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Edward Paul Abbey è stato uno scrittore statunitense, noto per il suo interesse per l'ambiente e l'ecologia.

Tra i suoi scritti più famosi si può citare I sabotatori che divenne il testo ispiratore di molti movimenti ambientalisti e dei cosiddetti ecoterroristi, lo stesso titolo venne usato come neologismo per definire l'azione di sabotaggio contro le cosiddette corporation a salvaguardia dell'ambiente e degli spazi incontaminati. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Gennaio 1927 – 14. Marzo 1989
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Edward Abbey frasi celebri

“L'anarchia non è una favola romantica, ma una testarda constatazione, basata su cinquemila anni di esperienza, che non possiamo affidare la gestione delle nostre vite a re, preti, politici, generali, e commissari provinciali.”

Edward Abbey

“La crescita fine a se stessa è l'ideologia delle cellule cancerose.”

Edward Abbey

Deserto solitario

“Il rancher (con un paio di onorevoli eccezioni) è un uomo che circonda i pascoli di filo spinato; scava pozzi e demolisce i laghetti destinati al bestiame; costringe alla fuga alci, antilopi e bighorn; avvelena i coyote e i cani della prateria; spara a vista ad aquile, orsi e puma; trasforma le praterie vergini in distese di coyote e i cani della prateria; spara a vista ad aquile, orsi e puma; trasforma le praterie vergini in distese di amaranto, serpentaria, monolopia, merda di mucca, formicai, fango, polvere e mosche. E poi, ciondolando davanti alle telecamere, racconta sorridendo del suo grande amore per il West.”

Edward Abbey

Origine: Da The Cowboy and His Cow, discorso tenuto a Missoula nell'aprile 1985; citato in Peter Singer e Jim Mason, Come mangiamo: le conseguenze etiche delle nostre scelte alimentari, traduzione di Francesca Tondi, il Saggiatore, Milano, 2011, [//books.google.it/books?id=2wafUFd2KQQC&pg=PA272 p. 272]. ISBN 978-88-565-0241-1

“L'abolizione del diritto di abortire per una donna, quando e se lo vuole, equivale a una maternità obbligatoria, una forma di stupro da parte dello Stato.”

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“Sentimento senza azione è la rovina dell'anima.”

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Deserto solitario

Edward Abbey Frasi e Citazioni

“Dottrine fantastiche (come il cristianesimo, l'islamismo o il marxismo) richiedono la fede unanime. Ma se qualcuno lancia dei dubbi sul credo di milioni, ecco che compaiono paura e odio, camere a gas e di tortura, la forca, i lavori forzati e i reparti di psichiatria.”

Edward Abbey

Origine: Da A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal, St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Sulla paura , Sulla fede , Su Dio

“La violenza è americana quanto la torta di mele.”

Edward Abbey

Origine: Da I sabotatori.

“Dal punto di vista di una tenia l'uomo fu creato da Dio per soddisfare l'appetito delle tenie.”

Edward Abbey

Deserto solitario

Su Dio

Edward Abbey: Frasi in inglese

“Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

“We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"The Heart of Noon", p. 116
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

“Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.”

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Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“Business: Busyness.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

“Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong… Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.”

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Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.”

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"How It Was", page 55
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

“One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.”

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On the Colorado River, in “Down the River with Major Powell”, p. 201
The Journey Home (1977)

“When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

“There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.”

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Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“The plow has probably done more harm — in the long run — than the sword.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

“When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“An empty man is full of himself.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“All living things on earth are kindred.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Serpents of Paradise", p. 22
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

“A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

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Edward Abbey libro Hayduke Lives

Hayduke Lives (1990)

“What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.”

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Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang

page 312
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us — if only we were worthy of it.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"Down the River", p. 147
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.”

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"The Second Rape of the West," The Journey Home, 1977
The Journey Home (1977)

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.”

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Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang

Seldom Seen Smith, page 313
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.”

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

“I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.”

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Edward Abbey libro Desert Solitaire

"The First Morning", p. 7
Desert Solitaire (1968)

“What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.”

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Edward Abbey libro The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

“One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.”

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Origine: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97

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